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  • BARTLEBY AND BENITO CERENO
    BARTLEBY AND BENITO CERENO
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed from his pen. Two of the most admired of these "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno" first appeared as magazine piece and were then published in 1856 as part of a collection of short stories entitled "The Piazza Tales.""Bartleby" (also known ...
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  • BILLY BUDD, BARTLEBY, AND OTHER STORIES
    BILLY BUDD, BARTLEBY, AND OTHER STORIES
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories—American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno...
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  • 21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
    21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
    YUVAL NOAH HARARI
    **THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What shou...
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  • ANNIE JOHN
    ANNIE JOHN
    JAMAICA KINCAID
    A haunting and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told with Jamaica Kincaid's trademark candour and complexity, and is a true coming-of-age classic. An adored only child growing up in Antigua, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very ce...
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  • TREASURE ISLAND
    TREASURE ISLAND
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    "In Treasure Island, Stevenson wrote one of the great books of all time, an enduring masterpiece, and my favourite too. No edition has ever been better illustrated than this. Ingpen's drawings are utterly compelling." - Michael MorpurgoRobert Louis Stevenson's tale of pirates, treasure and swashbuckling action on the high seas is the archetypal ripping yarn and continues to cap...
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  • THE PAPER MENAGERIE
    THE PAPER MENAGERIE
    KEN LIU
    Ken Liu is one of the most original, thought-provoking and award-winning short-story writers of his generation. This is the first collection of his work - sixteen stories that invoke the magical within the mundane, by turns profound, beguiling and heartbreaking. Included here are: The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary (Finalist for Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards), Mono No...
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  • MARY ANNE SAVES THE DAY
    MARY ANNE SAVES THE DAY
    RAINA TELGEMEIER
    "When a terrible fight breaks out among the four Babysitters Club friends, Mary Anne is left to her own devices. She has to sit by herself at lunch, make new friends, and deal with her overprotective father without advice from the BSC gang. But the worst part is when she faces a terrible baby-sitting predicament, and she can't find any help. Luckily, Mary Anne rises to the occa...
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  • ONLY THIS BEAUTIFUL MOMENT
    ONLY THIS BEAUTIFUL MOMENT
    ABDI NAZEMIAN
    From a Stonewall Honor-winning author comes a sweeping story of three generations of boys in the same Iranian family. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow and If You Still Recognise Me. 2019 - Moudis an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying...
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  • THE ART OF SEDUCTION
    THE ART OF SEDUCTION
    ROBERT GREENE
    When raised to the level of art, seduction has toppled empires, won elections, and enslaved great minds . . . What kind of seducer do you want to be? The Siren Everything must dazzle. The Rake Your greatest asset is your (bad) reputation. The Ideal Lover Embody their secret fantasies. The Dandy Stir their repressed desires. The Natural Be spontaneous, make them feel at ease. Se...
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  • MOON PALACE
    MOON PALACE
    PAUL AUSTER
    'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.' So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature. Moon Palace is his story -...
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  • BUTLER TO THE WORLD
    BUTLER TO THE WORLD
    OLIVER BULLOUGH
    It was once dais that Britain had lost an empire and not yet found a role. By the late 1950s, it had already found its purpose. It even had the costume. The rest of the world just hadn't noticed yet. Butler to the World reveals how the UK smoothly took up its position at the elbow of the worst people on Earth: the oligarchs, kleptocrats and gangsters. Britain pride ourselves on...
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  • SLOW DAYS, FAST COMPANY
    SLOW DAYS, FAST COMPANY
    EVE BABITZ
    No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated "its own kind of moral laws," spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and '70s. One man proved elusive, however, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. Slow Days, Fast Company i...
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  • THIS IS GAUDÍ
    THIS IS GAUDÍ
    MOLLIE CLAYPOOL
    Antoni Gaudí has a reputation as monastic, mad, and hermetic. But the architect of many of the buildings that define Barcelona's cityscape was no mad eccentric. He was a genius inspired by his faith in nature and the divine. Picking up the same strands of eclecticism and art nouveau current in fin de siècle European architecture, he transformed them into an idiom unique to hims...
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  • THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
    THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
    NIKOLAI GOGOL
    One of six beloved Christmas classics in collectible hardcover editions Written in 1831 by the father of Russian literature, this uproarious tale tells of the blacksmith Vakula's battle with the devil, who has stolen the moon and hidden it in his pocket, allowing him to wreak havoc on the village of Dikanka. Both the devil and Vakula are in love with Oksana, the most beautiful ...
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  • GREEK LESSONS
    GREEK LESSONS
    HAN KANG
    Book of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker, TIME magazine, Kirkus A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian. 'Breathtaking . . . She is simply my favourite living writer to read, and think with, and see the world with' Max Porter In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teac...
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  • THE POISONWOOD BIBLE
    THE POISONWOOD BIBLE
    BARBARA KINGSOLVER
    The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters. By the author of Pigs in Heaven. ...
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  • SILVER NITRATE
    SILVER NITRATE
    SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA
    'Like its namesake, Silver Nitrate catches fire and doesn't stop burning until the end' The Washington Post 'Perfection. No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia' Kiersten White, author of Hide 'Wows you with its eerie atmosphere and deft blend of historical fiction, horror and black magic' The New Yor...
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  • THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH CHRONICLES
    THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH CHRONICLES
    ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF
    The Ninth Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain-and they were never seen again. Four thousand men disappeared and their eagle standard was lost. It's a mystery that's never been solved, until now . . . So begins the story of The Eagle of the Ninth, set against a backdrop of Roman Britain and featuring a young soldier, Marcus Aquila, who sets off into the unknown nor...
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  • SERIOUS MONEY
    SERIOUS MONEY
    CAROLINE KNOWLES
    'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times 'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial Times London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. ...
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  • KING JOHN
    KING JOHN
    MARC MORRIS
    The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood - greedy, cowardly, despicable and cruel. But who was the man behind the legend? Drawing on contemporary chronicles and the king's own letters, bests...
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  • ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
    ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
    LEWIS CARROLL
    This book is part of The Macmillan Alice range, celebrating the 160th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with new editions of the classic books, plus The Complete Alice, The Macmillan Alice Pack of Cards, and The Nursery Alice.Lewis Carroll's timeless heroine Alice has been enchanting children for 160 years. Curious Alice, the bossy White Rabbit, the formidable Que...
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    8,75 €

  • MATILDA
    MATILDA
    ROALD DAHL
    Celebrating 85 years of Sparking Imaginations A beautiful clothbound edition of the much-loved modern classic Matilda. Bound in real cloth with two coloured foils and sprayed coloured edges, this deluxe edition is a perfect gift or collector's item. Part of an eight book set published to mark the 85th anniversary of Puffin Books. With a brand-new foreword from Robin Stevens. ...
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  • BLUEY: THE BEACH
    BLUEY: THE BEACH
    BLUEY
    Join Bluey for a fun day at the beach in this first picture book story from the new hit animation! Bluey, Bingo, Mum and Dad are at the beach. While Mum is off for a walk, Bluey discovers a beautiful shell and runs to catch up with her. What will she discover along the way in her first solo adventure? This new Bluey picture book is perfect for sharing with Bluey fans at stor...
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  • HOW TO BUILD A BOAT
    HOW TO BUILD A BOAT
    ELAINE FEENEY
    ** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 ** Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland in the most uplifting and tender book of the year 'A gorgeous gift of a novel'Douglas Stuart, no.1 bestselling author of Shuggie Bain 'Heart-rending and delightful'Louise Kennedy, no.1 bestselling author of Trespasses Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees,...
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    12,50 €

  • INTERFERENCE
    INTERFERENCE
    SUE BURKE
    Sue Burke's sweeping, award-finalist, SF Semiosis epic continues in Interference as the colonists and a team from Earth confront a new and more implacable intelligence.Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission.But the Earthlings misunderstand the nature of the Pa...
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  • SIX STORIES
    SIX STORIES
    STEFAN ZWEIG
    'One of the masters of the short story' Guardian These six stories of obsession, secrets, delusions and desires from one of the greatest European writers show individuals caught up in forces beyond their control - whether an art dealer agreeing to a heartbreaking deception, a soldier destroyed by war, a servant infatuated with her employer or a young boy witnessing illicit adu...
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  • BAD BEHAVIOR
    BAD BEHAVIOR
    MARY GAITSKILL
    Mary Gaitskill's tales of desire and dislocation in 1980s New York caused a sensation with their frank, caustic portrayals of men and women's inner lives. As her characters have sex, try and fail to connect, play power games and inflict myriad cruelties on each other, she skewers urban life with precision and candour. 'Stubbornly original, with a sort of rhythm and fine moment...
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  • HOW TO STOP A CONSPIRACY
    HOW TO STOP A CONSPIRACY
    SALLUST
    "In 63 BC the corrupt aristocrat Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catiline in English) aimed to topple the Roman Republic. Catiline attracted a wide array of supporters: debt-ridden men and women from prominent families, youths looking for adventure, the less well-off tried of a political class that seemed only to look out for its own interests. Frustrated in his efforts to be elected ...
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  • PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: WRATH OF THE TRIPLE GODDESS
    PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: WRATH OF THE TRIPLE GODDESS
    RICK RIORDAN
    THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK! THE ORIGINAL HERO. A BRAND-NEW ADVENTURE. Percy Jackson has saved the world multiple times - battling monsters, Titans, even death himself - so graduating high school should be a breeze, right? Wrong. Percy needs three recommendation letters from the gods before his final year in high school comes to an end. And one thing Per...
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  • KANTIKA
    KANTIKA
    ELIZABETH GRAVER
    A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika—"song" in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. Wh...
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    22,50 €